Job 18:2
18:2 How long [will it be ere] {a} ye make an end of words? {b}
     mark, and afterwards we will speak.

     (a) Who count yourselves just as Job 12:4.
     (b) Whom you take to be only beasts, as in Job 12:7.

Job 18:4
18:4 {c} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the {d} earth be
     forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his
     place?

     (c) That is, like a madman.
     (d) Shall God change the order of nature for your sake, by
         dealing with you otherwise than he does with all man?

Job 18:5
18:5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be {e} put out, and the
     spark of his fire shall not shine.

     (e) When the wicked is in his prosperity, then God changes
         his state: and this is his ordinary working for their
         sins.

Job 18:8
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he {f}
     walketh upon a snare.

     (f) Meaning, that the wicked are in continual danger.

Job 18:12
18:12 His strength shall be {g} hungerbitten, and destruction
      [shall be] ready at his side.

      (g) That which should nourish him will be consumed by
          famine.

Job 18:13
18:13 It shall devour the strength of his skin: [even] the {h}
      firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

      (h) That is, some strong and violent death will consume
          his strength: or as the Hebrew word signifies his
          members or parts.

Job 18:14
18:14 His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and
      it shall bring him to the {i} king of terrors.

      (i) That is, with great fear.

Job 18:15
18:15 It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because [it is] none of
      his: {l} brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

      (l) Though all the world would favour him, yet God would
          destroy him and his.

Job 18:18
18:18 He shall be driven from {m} light into darkness, and
      chased out of the world.

      (m) He will fall from prosperity to adversity.

Job 18:20
18:20 They that come after [him] shall be astonied at his {n}
      day, as they that went before were affrighted.

      (n) When they will see what came to him.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.